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Really sorry to hear that. Ive sent him an Email wishing him well. Prayers to him and his family. I was lucky enough to have had an afternoon with him a couple of years back when he was visiting family here in Fl. Yes hes one nice and very interesting guy. Wealth of detecting info and history.

What do you feel are reasons not to buy the machine based on whats been shown and said? Whats your intended use...... and what are you trying to compare it to? As a beach guy its not really about cost..... its about performance and comparing it to what im currently using and where. There are advantages and disadvantages to every machine..... thats why i have 3.... but only 3 now.

Badger Venice is a man made town.... it used to be an air base. They did training runs down the beach. Normally these appear when we get deeper cuts. But this beach was re-nurished and the sand was all pumped in from about a 1/2 out. So we were finding a LOT of these in the dry sand initially ... now as it settles in the water and we begin hunting it we are getting slowly cleaning these ou

Tom..... im trying to contact the guy who did um for me for a few more. I have them on my Nox as well. Id like to see if hes interested in selling them to those who want um. He was doing them for the Nox.... for cheap. Once the 3D printer program is there its fairly cheap and easy to do from what he said. Tom..... i found 5 or 6 last year i think. they are a little tricky to hear you can

Aaron .... that was 4 hours and just ran out of gas in the tank. i covered the area i felt would be the most productive and might not have gotten hit. So i hope i didnt miss all the better stuff lol. Ive had some issues slowing my hunting days and hours down. So right now its hit and miss on days out there. We all know the more time you can get in the better..... especially with this bein

The trash was deeper than you may think. Why..... because during the winter we had storms that pushed in a ton of seaweed that dug deep and moved a lot of this toward shore. This is one of the most popular beaches in the US.... in fact has been rated the no. one beach in the US several times. Most all of these we call floaters....... light weight and targets with a surface. Those sunglasses

The shocking part im hunting a very popular beach so it gets hunted. Half of those earrings are IRON and open. I check myself by digging them on occasion....solid ROUND sound much like an iron bottle cap. I can say this machine unlike say the CTX isn’t affected by a broken gold ring and only slightly on open gold earrings... mostly the hollow ones.

Its been much busier since the beaches opened ....crazy amount of hunters out there now too. People have a lot of down time and are picking up the hobby this year again. Yesterday there were hunters from up North, Ft Meyers, and Tampa out there. Just an odd year of hunting thus far at the beginning of whats normally recent drop time. Sand bars hasnt gotten much better either so with those

Thanks very much for your response Carl. This is indeed strange times with all this virus making everything uncertain for parts im sure. Our relationship right now with China is kind of on the edge. It could be some time before we get somewhat back to normal .....if ever. I apologize for pressing hard for this machine...... i dont want this thing to be shelved. I know when you were at Whi

So it’s someone at Fisher who has chosen not to allow Tom to review the machine until he purchases one. That’s disappointing. Also...... Carl M, GEOTECH made this post:... i guess he got over ruled.
"At the present Tom is slated to get an Impulse to test. I don't know when because there are limited units available and I have nothing to do with the scheduling. I hope I can visit wh

I agree.... it may be beyond that stage of testing and would be more of a review at this point. Im a little disappointed after a group from Fisher came to him initially and even borrowed his machine, that he would have to contact you Rick if he wanted to buy a machine at this point. But...... heres your post on page 1 of this thread i believe. Re-reading it maybe you didnt say YOU would get h

Well thats disappointing Rick. Since you werent the only one who kind of promised Tom a machine and apparently cant now. Lets just hope there are enough to go around for those of us who want one. Unconventional .... ya think. In some ways it seems those of us who want one have more faith in this machine than Fisher does. I know a lot have compared it to the Pulse Devil...... which never hit

Lol GM ... so many machines out there now I don’t know what the target is. It seems more about replacing their own line now days. Right now seems like a bad time to introduce a new detector unless you want a hand full of people to test and let sales raise in the long hall

I find it hard to call it a beach machine and it not be salt waterproof. It’s going to have to be impressive to unseat the Nox for beach hunting. It’s more ... it can also be used on the beach if you go occasionally. Anyone catch the warranty? Now how will they use this tech to produce a top of the detector?

I assume you are talking in general.... I think this is the first post. This material some pretty tuff stuff and extremely light. Beach guys are a little harder on equipment....salt water, toque, sand, and banging them around on the bottom and you can’t see, and one of the worse thing leaning on the machine like it’s a third leg. Dirt hunters tend to set their machines down. One other thing

I’ve never seen the need for a large coil. To me they make most machines nose heavy, they loose sensitivity to smaller gold, and in or near the water often requires you reduce sensitivity.... which means you loose that depth gain. They can be a bear to move in the water with much current. Lot more torque can also break cuffs, coil ears, or create shaft movement. I’ve noticed lately with VL

I re-read this........ (((For Dew: There is very negligible loss of depth/performance..... when saltwater was flowing (with some speed) over either of these Nickels. --Unlike VLF's--))).
I know exactly what you mean. A lot of machines in the wash LOOSE targets. Targets like nickels on say my Nox .... especially deep ones change to iron at about 10" near that wash.... and in the wash

Thanks Tom. I normally hunt in AM .... I like the louder less modulated tone. In the water I can still hit disc to check a target. I run notch at 28. Tend to knock out or break up most iron. We have a bunch of sand currently so a lot of floaters just amazing how deep targets are. I think we may have gotten $1 worth of change. We did test the Xcal on a quarter I found ... even in PP mode na

I’m setting back and not saying much about beach hunting.... time for those dirt hunters who are active on here to spread the word. Still watching to see if ya get the larger coil out. Like many I’m really not looking for coverage with it nearly as much as the depth you might try and squeeze out of it. If I’m getting a couple of inches now over the Nox .... and that baby could get a couple o

I appreciate detecting videos especially since I don’t do them. I hope you didn’t take my comments negatively. Keep um coming....especially now we have a lot of time on our hands and it give us lots to talk about

We can tinker and tune with our test gardens ...... but you have to be able to adjust to the conditions you are given in the real world. I watch videos and a lot of times they KNOW there is a target..... they know what that target is and how deep..... then they adjust to the TARGET and say look .... this works best. The time to do testing is where you are hunting and on buried/found targets n

I no longer do dirt hunting....... but i do find all this interesting. It appears we keep pushing for more and more iron testing and thus far the MDT has performed well. Is it because of this we keep trying to find its limits or are we just trying to convince ourselves its not as good as other machines we use? Personally i prefer head to head testing of the machine you THINK is better in the

I dont believe you can make a judgement of the machines ability simply by looking at Video personally. There really is a lot to this machine that requires hands on. Initially They were even picky as to who got them. Barry... is he and Berry NY the same guy? I asked that because Berry NY did the first batch of GGA thru Gary Storm. Didn’t Ron and Carter buy out Gary... detector Pro?

I bought this machine for salt water hunting because i owned 2 AquaSounds. It was a machine by Tindell the designer for Nautilus detectors for Herb Mcdonald a treasure hunter here in Fl. We all know how good those machines were for Relic hunting. It uses 14khz that also had GB AND Salt Balance. GREAT machine for depth provided you didnt run into a lot of black sand. The MDT offered more fre